The reworked layout reinforces the original single-loaded hallway, which connects the original cottage at the front and the rear addition at the back. This hallway provides access to a new laundry area, linen storage, and the main bathroom. Beyond these spaces, you arrive at an operable sculptural skylight threshold that reflects light and moves air throughout the room, leading you into a new open-plan kitchen and dining room that visually connects to a central courtyard garden.
Connecting the house and garden is achieved by lowering the living area to garden level, creating a seamless connection between indoor and outdoor spaces that enhances both visual and physical relationships, while adding depth to a compact living area. The relationship is enhanced by a datum of timber veneer joinery, which structures the room. The everyday needs and requirements are hidden behind this timber layer of fixed battens, hinged, sliding, and retractable panels and screens, which provide functional storage while framing and orienting the view to the great room, the central courtyard.
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